Beach Stone-Curlew

Home>index>Beach Stone-Curlew

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9145 20230905 - CLICK for another view.

Notes: Large wader. Complex black & white head pattern w. thick white downcurved brow,
massive black-tipped yellow bill, dull yellow eyes & heavy legs. Juvenile: faint brown fringes
to lesser coverts. In the marine tidal zone, feeds mainly on crabs.

Range from Morcombe^©(modified)

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_5606 20200330 - adult w. crab prey.

Lockhart beach, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_5105 20180219 - toes trailing. CLICK for one at East Point, Darwin, N NT 20180730.

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_5937 20230814 - CLICK for more excitement.

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0204 20230914 - CLICK for one there on 20231003.

Garig Gunak Barlu NP, NE NT IMG_8943 20160731

Urangan, Hervey Bay, SE Qld IMG_5800 20190714 - CLICK for three on foreshore, Cairns FNE Qld 20230913.

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_2685 20190819 - juvenile

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_5725 20200331 - adult bathing, younger adult observing.

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_6762+6764 20200412 - adult breaking up a crab, juvenile observes.

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld MVI_8731 20190724 - young.